Category: Homesteading

There are many channels on YT featuring DIY cabin builds in the wilderness. Some have narration, others none, just footage of the process, sometimes…

Russian bushcraft genius Max Egorov has been described as “the non-fiction version of “The Most Interesting Man in the World.” His knowledge of practical…

Title 4, United States Code, Chapter 1 As Adopted by the National Flag Conference, Washington, D.C., June 14-15, 1923, and Revised and Endorsed by…

One of my favorite YT channels is Kirsten Dirkson, a videographer who travels the world with her husband and children interviewing innovative architects, builders…

Survival Skills Primitive is a fascinating YT channel producing videos that are at once instructive and also very relaxing to watch, perfectly demonstrating what…

Once had a blue cheese coleslaw over at Players Pub in Bloomington years ago, and decided to come up with my own twist on the…

In my recently acquired desire to post something unrelated to politics, Federal Reserve bashing, neo-lib ridicule, industrial-strength approaches to snowflake removal and the like,…

The Big Damn Deck Deck project – Phase Two A retrospective     Oct 3, 2016 – Wifey supreme Rhonda Haggard Foster poses nonchalantly…

My calendar indicates this is another red-letter day, but this time it doesn’t involve a guitar. It was just about a year ago that I was…

Doing some tweaking of last summer’s big damn deck project: sealing in the end to make a 10×10 mini-garage. I wrapped the west and…

The heart of any homestead is, of course, the wood stove. A source of heat, a place to warm food, and the visual center…